A pair of Royal German soup-tureens, covers and stands

MAKER'S MARK OF JOHANNES JOOST AND HEINRICH ROSE, SCHWERIN, CIRCA 1904

细节

A pair of Royal German soup-tureens, covers and stands
maker's mark of Johannes Joost and Heinrich Rose, Schwerin, circa 1904
Each on oval stand with four double lion's paw and acanthus foliage feet, chased with a band of flutes, the tureens each on four scroll and acanthus foliage feet and with two lion's mask drop ring handles hung with ribbon-tied oak leaf and acorn swags, chased with a band of flutes and with detachable domed cover chased with wave decoration on a matted ground and with detachable acanthus foliage, reed-and-tie and bud finial, with laurel borders, the covers engraved with two coats-of-arms accollé, engraved beneath the stands with inscription, marked on covers
the stand 19¾in. (50cm.) long
586ozs. (18,282grs.) (2)

来源

Friederick Franz IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1882-1945)
A German Royal House; Christie's Geneva, 12 May 1982, lots 147

拍品专文

The these tureens are modelled on a pair of Russian tureens with French stands. The tureens, by Berthold Christian Schelepper, St. Petersburg, 1774 and stands by Antoine Boullier, Paris 1780, were originally commissioned by Catherine the Great of Russia. They entered the Royal collection of Mecklenburg and Schwerin, perhaps through the marriage of Friedrich Franz III to Anastasia, only daughter of Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaievitch or Russia, in 1879. They inspired the Schwerin goldsmiths Johann Joost and Heinrich Rose to create the magnificent dinner service which commemorated the marriage of Friedrich Franz III'S son in 1904.